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I Won’t Drink to That

A mail order company in Staffordshire, England, has come under fire after offering a tankard commemorating the Battle of Britain. It isn’t the 34.99-pound (US$54) price that bothers veterans of the conflict, but the fact that the tankard wasn’t made in the “pottery-making capital of England, Staffordshire’s Stoke-on-Trent”. Rather, the mugs were made in Germany. (Reuters) ...Even if you can beat ’em, sometimes you still have to join ’em.


Publication Date: 18 August 1996

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Volume 3, Page 27
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